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Leadership Considerations for EO in a Multi-Business Firm

In: Entrepreneurial Orientation and Strategic Leadership

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  • Brian S. Anderson

    (University of Missouri–Kansas City
    Ghent University)

Abstract

This chapter addresses an oft-mentioned issue in EO research: EO at the corporate strategy level. Scholars conceive of EO existing at the business strategy level, delineated by business model. By extension, this implies that for firms with multiple business models, there would be an equivalent number of ‘EOs.’ I explore this issue, and introduce the concept of a portfolio approach, wherein senior leadership aligns a unit’s EO to its product-market opportunity in the context of the firm’s corporate strategy. I then briefly discuss whether the firm’s overall EO is an additive function of the unit-level EO or viewed as a reflection of the common variance in EO across units. I then turn to the resource competition question inherent to multi-business firms, and how this competition effects unit- and corporate-level EO. Lastly, I briefly review the role of organizational structure in the EO literature.

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  • Brian S. Anderson, 2021. "Leadership Considerations for EO in a Multi-Business Firm," Springer Books, in: Entrepreneurial Orientation and Strategic Leadership, chapter 0, pages 61-69, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-87300-4_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87300-4_6
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